# νόσος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* νοῦσος (noûsos) — Epic, Ionic

### Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Willi's derivation from a putative Proto-Indo-European *n-h₁osu-o-s (“not good”), from *n̥- (“not, un-”) + a u-stem of the o-grade of *h₁es- (“to be”), and subsequent comparison of Hittite 𒀀𒀸𒋗𒍑 (a-aš-šu-uš, “good”), suffers from phonological irregularities.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nó.sos/ → /ˈno.sos/ → /ˈno.sos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /nó.sos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈno.sos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈno.sos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈno.sos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈno.sos/

### Noun

νόσος • (nósos) f (genitive νόσου); second declension
* sickness, disease, illness
* plague
* misery, suffering, distress
* madness, vice
* bane

#### Descendants

* → English: noso-
* Greek: νόσος (nósos)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νόσος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1023-4

### Further reading

* “νόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “νόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “νόσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* νόσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* “νόσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3554 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* νόσος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. affection idem, page 16.affliction idem, page 17.ailment idem, page 21.canker idem, page 110.complaint idem, page 151.contagion idem, page 166.contamination idem, page 166.disease idem, page 232.disorder idem, page 235.epidemic idem, page 279.illness idem, page 416.infection idem, page 437.infirmity idem, page 438.malady idem, page 509.miasma idem, page 527.murrain idem, page 547.pest idem, page 609.pestilence idem, page 609.plague idem, page 616.plague-spot idem, page 616.scourge idem, page 741.sickness idem, page 772.taint idem, page 852.unhealthiness idem, page 921.
* “νόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “νόσος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈno.sos/

### Noun

νόσος • (nósos) f (plural νόσοι)
* (medicine) disease
    Synonyms: αρρώστια (arróstia), ασθένεια (asthéneia), πάθηση (páthisi)

#### Related terms

* ανοσήλευτος (anosíleftos, “not hospitalised, untreated”, adjective)
* ανοσία f (anosía, “immunity”)
* νοσηλευτής m (nosileftís, “male nurse”)
* νοσηλεύτρια f (nosiléftria, “nurse”)
* νοσοκόμα f (nosokóma, “nurse”)
* νοσοκομείο n (nosokomeío, “hospital”)
* νοσοκόμος m (nosokómos, “male nurse”)
* νοσώ (nosó)

### Further reading

* νόσος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language